The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
AROTT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Mrs FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT will spend
most of the summer at her home at Lynn. Mass.
THE statue of DR.. Wells, who first used ether
as an anesthetic. is to be placed on q fine new
pedestal of granite at Hartford, Conn.
KAISER WILHELM was greatly disappointed at
not being asked to recent party given by Count
Radolinky. at which his granddaughter, Princess
Victoria. appeared in the guise of s'Yum-Yum.'
PHILADELPHIA Record: The man who insists
on telling old stories, the man who talks per-
petually Of the weather, and the man who knew
Billy Kissane-these are three individuals whose
appearance now fills the public mind with
sense of safety.
MAMMA (coaxinglyJ-Co Bobby, take your
medicine now, and then jump irto bed Bobby
i do not want to take any medicine. ma.
Father iwho knows how to govern childrsn)--
Robert. it you don't take your medicine at once
you will be put to bed without taking it at all
It'd Bits An important legal decision has just
been recorded in England Mr. Justice Stephen
has decided, after long course of wrestling
with authorities, that dead man can't be
liheled We therefore absolutely refuse to take
back anything We have said regarding Ananias.
CHANG YEN HooN, Chinese minister to this
country, will sail with half his suite for Spain
on the 18th of this month. He will present his
TO Washington next fall year from now no
will go to Peru, to which country he is also d.
Dramatically accredited.
THE late Judge Pierce. of Philadelphia. was a
conspicuous advocate of freedom and humanity
in nearly every case tried in that city under the
fugitive slave law. In the famous Dangerfeld
case he and his colleagues kept up an unbroken
argument from the opening of the court one
morning until sunrise the next morning.
THE last drop of admiration let fall from the
huge bucket held aloft in Washington is to the
effect that Mrs. Cleveland when she rides in the
cold wind, does not get red nose watery
eyes ike other women. Instead. "the cold,
keen air only brings a rucdier hue to her cheeks,
and he- eyes only take more beautiful
lussre
THE late General Fare, who was French Min
lister of War from 1879 to 1881, used to be- in the
days of his Tunisian expedition, called General
Far Niente by his political opponents. 1t
he who abolished the use OF drums in the French
army, but his successor restored them, aud Gen.
Fares remains were borne to the tomb to the
sound of mufied drums.
In London now everybody is saying, under his
breath. that the story that the Prince of Wales
coolly stayed in his bed when called at the time
of the earthquake at Cannes is all bosh A lady
who was at the same hotel declares that Albert
Edward left the building as quickly as any Of its
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our dear Angomaniacs.
THE only piece of ground possessed by the
United States of America, elsewhere than in
America ITSELF is the little plot of land on which
the American Legation is built in the town of
Tangier. This given to the American ma
ton by the Sultan of Morocco. The legations
in all other countries stand ground rented,
but not owned by the American government
COLONEL BoNAPARTE, of Washington. has
gone to France, as is his usual custom. There
are those who believe that he mas fair chance
yet to sit on an imperial throne as a representa-
tive of his great-unce, the first Napoleon. Mrs.
Bonaparte, it will be remembered. is grand
daughter OF Daniel Webster, so THAR son now at
Annapolis has the Webster and Bonaparte blood
In his veins.
THE handsomest man at the capital is said to
be Door keeper Donelson of the House of Rep
resentatives- He is six feet tall. has iron-gray
hair, a small, curling mustache. a clear complex
ion and pair of brilliant steel-bue eyes. He
is genial and popular man. He always insists
calling himself IAN ex-rebel." Donelson is
the only candidate in the field for Door keeper OF
the coming Congress. and il is thought he has
walk lover.
FLORENCE, the actor, is said to have hobby,
which is one worth encouragement 1t is to
establish a central flower market in New York
His idea is that direct competition would in
crease the beauty and novelty of the designs
The display, with its wealth of color, would IN
itself bring multitudes to the gay show. and it
would have educational effect also. He
promises to make the matter a subject of study
during his stay in Europe this summer. and to
give the result of his observations on his return
MALvIRI BEY. the new Turkish minister to
the United States. is very accomplished man.
He speaks six languages, including the best En-
gsh and the French of Paris where he was
educated. He likes the English go much that,
like other Turkish gentlemen, be it often
in his private correspondence. we'll in his
conversation. He is young man yet. although
he has been fifteen years in the diplomatic serv-
ice, in which he has been aided by the inhu-
ence of his father, who is the physician to the
Sultan.
LONG JOHN WENTWORTH, of Chicago is
erecting an immense granite monument for him
| self. When asked the other day what epitah he
| would put on it he replied: Nothing; not a
| word It's going to be just like me. plain. un-
| sophisticated monument Then a manll come
| along and say, Whose monuments THAR and
| somebodyll say, Wentworth Then the man II
| say, Wentworth? Who's Wentworth? And he'll
| go and buy biography of me and remember it.
| If l had big inscription it maud say.
| Wentworth. hump Wentworth eh1 and GO on
and forget all about it before he got out of the